Machesney Park, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m880 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Machesney Park sits at about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 225 m
most residents: 720–830 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the west side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside village limits
Machesney Park spans about 230 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Machesney Park | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (RFD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi south of the village limits | 742 ft226 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 22,839 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,800 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3472° N, 89.0390° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chicago/Rockford International (RFD) 742 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 61011 61073 61115
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Argyle910 ft
- Loves Park820 ft
- Rockford790 ft
- Rockford Township780 ft
- Owen Township770 ft
- Roscoe Township770 ft
- Rockton Township770 ft
- Rockton760 ft
- Roscoe750 ft
- Harlem Township750 ft
- Machesney Park730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois613th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Winnebago Countylowest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lookout Point830 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.